Every room and audience is a storytelling opportunity.
Let's make sure the story is ready.
Storytelling programmes and experiences for leaders, teams and events.
For leaders & teams
Story as a strategic tool.
The most effective leaders do more than inform - they move people. They build alignment, shift culture, and make complex ideas feel simple and human.
Through intensive one-day or multi-day programmes that are grounded in a balance of neuroscience and practice, your team will discover, shape and tell the stories, including data-driven stories, that matter - for the rooms, moments, your brand and relationships where it counts most.
The story is also about the future. The leaders who create lasting alignment are the ones who can paint a vivid picture of where we're going and make people want to be part of that future. This is where narrative meets strategy. Where story becomes the architecture of change, and how strategy cascades through an organisation.
Every programme is designed around your specific context, challenge and goals. From established organisations to early-stage startups, if your team needs to find, tell and live its story, this is for you.
“Colin is a master at utilizing storytelling facilitation and design thinking to turn complex strategy development into an engaging, collaborative process."
- Darren Graham, Director, Joint Prosperity
Story Circle Labs.
A half-day, peer-coaching learning process.
We all carry powerful stories. They just need the space to be found and shaped.
A Story Circle Lab is a four-hour immersive experience where people unearth their personal stories and turn them into powerful communication tools for work.
No slides. No lectures. Just a circle, a process, and the kind of honest sharing that changes how people see themselves and each other.
People arrive not knowing what to expect. They leave with three things:
A practical understanding of how to find and recognise the stories that matter - and what makes a personal story strategically valuable in a work context.
Real practice - stories are shaped, told, and iterated in real time through a peer coaching process. You don't just learn about storytelling. You do it.
A felt sense of connection - to their own story, to the people in the room, and to what becomes possible when story lands the way it should.
The most common thing people say afterwards? "Wow. I didn't know that about you."
Every Story Circle Lab is designed around your specific context and needs - whether that's learning story skills, team connection, leadership communication, culture building, a conference session, or an away day that actually means something.
A Story Circle Lab is a creative injection of clarity, surprise, energy, connection and delight.
“What a powerful and authentic storytelling session this turned out to be! Very practical, creative and well worth the time!”
-Therveshre, Story Circle Lab participant
Keynotes & events
Messages that move a room.
The best talks are the ones that change something - in the room, in the people, in the conversation that follows.
Built around story, presence, and human connection, each keynote and activation is designed specifically for your audience, your theme, and the moment you want to create.
A live experience, informed by neuroscience with sharp insights about how people can become better at paying attention, connecting, and managing their own internal states.
Common themes include:
— The story you didn't know you had
— The currency of connection
— Story as a strategic leadership tool
— Slow down, there isn’t much time!
Every engagement is bespoke. Let's talk about what your event needs.
"Colin gave an exceptional talk on the remarkable power of storytelling for a large African bank. Transformational."
Kevin Liebenberg, Narrative Guide to Leaders
The Story Pivot
When life changes, your story changes too.
A new country. An empty nest. A career that no longer fits. Divorce. Midlife crisis. Fresh opportunities. These moments don't just change your circumstances - they change who you are and how you present yourself to the world, especially in your work.
The Story Pivot is a four-week group programme for professionals ready to own their next narrative chapter. You'll sense into and then craft three stories that matter most - your origin story, your purpose story, and your value story - so you can walk into any room and make people lean in, take note, and remember you.
One session per week for four weeks. A small group of peers. Real work between sessions. Strategy and practice.
Anatol Kowalewski
“What I expected to be a nerve-wracking experience transformed into something entirely different. Within minutes, Colin had woven us into a circle of trust so genuine that vulnerability felt like coming home.”
- Eloise, workshop client